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"Don't come to Russia anymore," ambassador Mitrofanova says about investigative journalist Grozev

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"No one will be looking for him across the world. We just tell him: 'Don't come to Russia anymore'". This is what Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Bulgaria, Eleonora Mitrofanova, told journalists after a half-hour meeting in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sofia. She was summoned there to give an explanation on the occasion of placing the Bulgarian investigative journalist Christo Grozev in a list of wanted people by the Russian Ministry of Interior. Mitrofanova said it was agreed that the Bulgarian Ministry of the Interior would request official information from the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation about the case against Grozev

Mitrofanova added that the meeting also discussed information about the abolition of the study of the Bulgarian language in schools with ethnic Bulgarians in the occupied Ukrainian territories and the removal of portraits of prominent Bulgarian personalities. According to her, a check would be made.

Bulgaria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs pointed out that at the meeting the Bulgarian side has not been informed through the established channels by the Russian side about the charges against Mr. Grozev. Sofia insisted on knowing what are the grounds for this in due course. The ministry has pointed out that against the background of Bulgaria's inclusion in Russia's list of so-called "unfriendly states", the Grozev case further undermines bilateral relations, which are already at one of their lowest points, through no fault of Bulgaria. Bulgaria perceives the Russian decision represents an attack on freedom of speech and an attempt to intimidate a Bulgarian citizen.



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